Being A Tabernacle For God Is Better than Creating A Tower
Are you building a Tower or a Tabernacle?
The tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is man's self-pursuit of wisdom and intelligence. The Tabernacle, on the other hand, is what God builds for us out of His wisdom and goodness.
What are you building?
Are you a Tabernacle for God, or are you creating a tower for yourself?
Three things that both represent, spiritually speaking.
- The tower represents man's self-ambition and inner drive to prove himself and reach the highest on his own. The Tabernacle is God's love to meet man where he is.
- The tower is man's effort for unity without God. The Tabernacle is God's effort to unite man in His love through His Spirit.
- The tower is temporal and destructible. God's Tabernacle is eternal and indestructible.
Today, some believers want to build a tower for the sake of God. I want to make money and help the poor. Nowhere does God desire that of His children. God knows who needs the help, and that's why His Spirit is given to us for us to do what He wants us to do when He wants us to do.
How hard that is in today's crazy social media world. To not be motivated by content created to trigger all sorts of emotions. People are doing good not because God told them to but because they feel it is good.
The world has conditioned us into believing that if we work hard and achieve something, we are something. The Word teaches us to love God with all our mind, heart and strength, aka labour for Christ. God will reward us in due time. We have been made to believe by the devil that we can do some things that God can do. Let's not be deceived anymore now that we are in Christ.
Save yourselves! Listen to the Holy Spirit, and prepare to meet Jesus. Praise God, and Amen.